hard put
     adj : facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty; "the
           troubled car industry"; "distressed companies need
           loans and technical advice"; "financially hard-pressed
           mexican hotels are lowering their prices"; "we were
           hard put to meet the mortgage paymentng"; "it was
           apparent that the magazine was in trouble"; "found
           themselves in a bad way financially" syn: distressed,
            hard-pressed, in a bad wayp, in troublep
see also:
distressed hard-pressed in a bad wayp in troublep